Thanks to all who came to the relaxacon. Thanks to Jack and
Conor and Crystal who signed up to help beforehand and to Tem and Susan and
anyone else who got shanghaied at con.

·Vice-President’s Report -- none

·Treasurer

Next years budget was submitted (found later in Mentor after
being printed last month). It will be taken up at the July corporate meeting.
Our finances are in similar shape to last month. We have approximately $4000
not spent on pipe and drape, credit card machine, and other things we have
voted on but not yet done.

Monthly account summaries are printed in the Mentors.
If you have any questions, please talk to me.

June 1st 2007

Change
from last month

Even
Year - A08

$6,003.77

-$6.23

Odd
Year - A07

$9,574.12

$1,510.45

Corporate

Reserved

$3,000 N4 Grant (unspent)

$1,559.10

-$220.00

Grant Fund

$4,000.00

$0.00

Two years expenses (CDs)

$28,203.94

$99.55

Voted Expenses

$3,925.01

$1,000.00

Total Reserved

$37,688.05

$879.55

Unallocated
Funds

$4,254.67

-$1,420.21

Total
Corporate Funds

$41,942.72

-$540.66

·Clerk – no report

·Executive Board Report

We approved the storage of the icehouse pieces at Pandemonium,
with the understanding that they are Arisia’s and are coming back to Arisia.

·Arisia ’07 Conchair

We refunded the memberships of two A’07 attendees who had
serious accessibility issues.

·Arisia ’07 Treasury

Ben and Alex got together to talk about the books and work is
still ongoing on that front.

·Arisia ’08 Conchair

There have been many meeting. Programming brainstorming is
open. Welcome Michael Whitehouse as Programming divhead and new corporate
member. Welcome Crystal Huff as Pubs divhead. Zambia development is
proceeding. Our party at Balticon exceeded al expectations in terms of
attendance and interest. We sent flyers to Wiscon, Baycon, and Duckon Budget
will probably be ready for the next meting. Hotel reservations will be open
around July 1. Next concomm meeting is at the Hyatt Jul 18. We will have
parking passes

·Arisia ’08 Treasury

Registrations have started and money is coming in.

·Arisia ’09 Conchair

The
conchair-to-be says hi!

·Arisia ’09 Treasury

None Selected -- No Report.

·A08 Relaxacon

Will be held in the Corsair & CrossRip in Dennisport May
30 – June 1. Rooms are $90/night, by check only. Reservations are open now.

·Corporate Inventory Control

We think the elevator is still broken. More pipe is at the
mailbox? Rick or Skip will pick up.

·Grant Committee

We got a grant request from the Heinlein Society for their
centennial, but after Mentor went out so too late for their event. We also got
a grant request from PiCon which will be brought up at the next meeting.

34 adults, 2
Saturday, 5 kids, approximately $50 in income.Spent about $450 on food and
supplies. Corporate provided $1000 for the suite. We did better than expected.
Thanks to MENSA and Janet and various people who donated or lent supplies and
equipment. Eboard recommends to set the advance membership rates for next year
the same as this year: $15 for the weekend, $10 for Friday or Saturday. The
con will have to end a little earlier on Sunday, not decided what to do about
corporate meeting. No chair has been picked yet. No deadline currently set on
pre-reg rate. Motion (for membership rates) passes unanimously.

· Committees not listed had no report

·Old Business

The eboard
has asked for a quote on liability insurance but gotten back one that only
covers storage; we want to cover the con as well.

Ben needs to
get some account information on the Pugliese education fund to send out the
check.

·New Business

No
new business brought to the floor.

·Announcements and future meetings

Smofcon is
coming up and filling their hotel. United Fancon is moving their date to Nov
3-5 instead of Veterans Day weekend.

Moved to
officially refer to the July 29 meeting as “the August meeting” Passes many to
1 Date for October meeting: 2 pm Sunday Oct 21 at the home of Mary Dumas in
Tewksbury. Passes unanimously.

Meeting
adjourned at 2:47 PM – please take home the leftovers.

Corporate Budget for 2007-2008

The following is the proposed budget for 2007-2008 fiscal
year, which starts July 1st. It will need to be approved by the Corporation.

Arisia 07-08 Corporate Budget

Income

Dues

$1,000.00

Interest

$1,000.00

A'08 Convention Payment

$9,889.00

Total Income

$11,889.00

Expenses

Rent ($797) per month

-$9,564.00

Mailbox (paid through 3/08)

-$325.00

Mentor – Postage and Copying

-$600.00

USPS Bulk Account

-$160.00

Admin

-$200.00

Supplies

-$300.00

Lawyer (as needed)

-$300.00

Liability Insurance

-$1,500.00

Domain Name (paid through 2010)

Student Art Contest Prizes

Server Hosting

-$300.00

Credit Card/Paypal Fees

-$10.00

Relaxacon '08

-$1,000.00

Total Expenses

-$13,259.00

Grant Committee

The grant
committee moves to ask the membership to approve partially funding the PiCon grant request of $6400 for the amount of $3000.

Supporting
information: this year, PiCon is expecting to make a
small profit; this grant will cover enough of their expenses that they can pay
back last year's debts and have some seed money for the next convention.
The intent is that this grant will help PiCon establish a
solid financial footing, not become a recurring grant unless there are
exceptional circumstances.

Pending Business

From
February

·Conclude discussion of refund policy and bring a new motion
(EBoard)

·Get quotes to EBoard for liability and contents insurance. (CIC)

·Deferred discussion of a family or young fan rate to a future
meeting.

·Weekend rates were changed, but single-day rates were not changed
and need to be discussed in the context of a 4-day con.

·Report from hotel search committee about state of 2009/2010
possibilities.

From March

·Who is responsible for notifying non-corporate-member keyholders
of new policy?

Survey Committee

Archives Committee

Lori “Jet”
Turi

Timeline Committee

Lisa
Hertel (head)

Skip
Morris

Nicholas
Shectman

Noel
Rosenberg

Rachel
Silber

Mentor Subscription Information

Subscription
to Mentor of Arisia is included with Corporate Membership to Arisia,
Incorporated. Membership runs from September 1st to August 31st and costs
$24. Dues are pro-rated on a monthly basis for members joining during the
year.

Take the Tobin bridge (Route 1) to the Revere
Beach exit (exits are not numbered). Sign says Route 16 to 1A Revere Beach.
Follow Route 16 straight at traffic light to rotary. At rotary, take first
right on to route 1A. Follow More
Directions (below).

From North, or North West of Revere:

Follow Route 1 to the exit for Route 60 (again,
there are no exit numbers). Follow Route 60 east. At the rotary with route
107, remain on Route 60 (There are Dunkin Donuts on both sides of this
rotary). Go straight through the first traffic light (Marganellies liquor
store is on your right at this intersection). Very carefully, at the rotary
that is the intersection of Route 60 (60 ends here), Route 16 (16 also ends
here), and route 1A, take third turn on to route 1A North. Follow More Directions (below).

More Directions:

Go straight through the next two traffic
lights, passing Dunkin’ Donuts on right at first light and Stop and Shop on
right at second light. At the next rotary, take the second right turn to
follow route 1A North. Go Past the Wonderland T station. Continue straight at
the next traffic light, passing a 7/11 on right. There is a very small river
under the road; you might miss it, but once you see this opening you are
technically no longer on the ‘mainland’. At the next traffic light, turn right
onto Oak Island Street (Teddy’s convenience store is on the left of the
intersection). Take your second right turn on to Arcadia Street.

55 Arcadia Street is on the right five houses
after Argyle Street; it is a two story white house, next to a three story tan
house. I will leave the Black Honda Element on the street. People may use my driveway.

MBTA:

Take the blue line to Wonderland station. The
outbound train exits on the ocean side of the station. Turn left on Boulevard
and walk two blocks to Kelly's Roast Beef. Turn left on to Oak Island
Street. The first left will be Arcadia Street. 55 Arcadia Street is on the
second block, about midway down. House is well marked, and the Honda Element
will be parked on the street.

The zoo’s current population is

Byron -- the keeshond - A spitz breed, he has solid
fiber hair as people do, not hollow shaft fur as other breeds of dogs do.

Purrball -- American short hair cat

Fidget -- Guinea pig

Hillary, Jojo, Warbler and Bobbie -- the Australian
cockatiels (they will not be attending the meeting)

Triss and Issy -- Bearded dragons

Lots of fish tanks.

Pictures are available at
http://tapadance.livejournal.com/

Please remember if you are going to bring food, Jan
has severe food allergies; please avoid bringing foodstuffs made from apples,
pears, and peaches.

Come early and enjoy the beach the swing set, or play
with the animals, or the dolls, or the toys.